Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14
SUNDAY. AUGUST II. 1887.
Mahone-Once More.

Mahone-Once More.
1t is rumored that inasmuch as the
Democrats have seventeen out of the
twenty-one senators who hold over,
and therefore cannot fail to carry the
Senate. General MALONE will concen-
trate his efforts upon the attempt to
carry the House Of Delegates. For
what reason: Because, so the report
runs, if he can gain control of the
House of Delegates, which contains
one hundred members. he can unseat
Democrats enough in that bodyto over
come any majority which the Democrats
can possibly secure in the Senate, and
thus manufacture a majority on ballot.
This majority would, of course, so he
assumes, re-elect him TO the United
States Senate. II is plausible scheme !;
for as the Senate consists of only forty
members, twenty-one of whom are al
ready seated. itwould beimpossible for
the Democrats in the Senate to follow
MAHoyE'sexample and unseata Republi-
can senator whenever MALONE unseated
Democratic delegate. One hundred
is more than forty, argues the little
sparrovhavk. The rumor we have re-
ferred to is given in Richmond letter
to the Baltimore SuR-as follows
1.-The fight is to be directed almost
entirely towards getting control of the
House of Delegates. II they can get
a bare majority of that body, they can
remove enough of their opponents to
give them n majority Of the Legisla-
ture on joint ballot and elect Mahone
to the Senate"
We ought to add that there is no
good reason to fear that, even il he de-
sires TO DO SO, MALONE viii be able to
find plant tools readyto engage in such
work. There are IN the Republican
party other aspirants to the United
States Senate besides himself and it
is not reasonable to suppose that their
adherents in the General Assembly
would agree to dishonor the State and
disgrace themselves in order to return
to the United States Senate man who
is no better qualified for seat in that
body than ten thousand other Republi-
cans in Virginia. There is nothing in
this fine scheme of MAHoYE's. In the
first place, the Republicans won't carry
the House of Delegates at all. In the
second place, if they do carry it, there
viii be enough of the Republican men,
bers enti-Mahoneites to prevent the
election of MALONE. a Republican
acceptable to the Democratic members
will be chosen.
Speaking of MAHoNE's preposterous
claim that lie is entitled to credit for
having introduced more bills than any
other Virginia congressman ever did in
the same length of time, the Alexandra
Gazette says it is notorious fact that
the most impotent and inefficient men
in Congress introduce more bills than
their more influential and efficient col.
leagues, and adds that il congress
mans efficiency were estimated by the
number OF bills he introduced, SMALLs,
the ignorant colored member from
South Carolina, could easily have be-
come the most efficient member of that
body, as all that would have been neces-
sary for him TO DO in order to have
achieved that fame would have been to
have got some one to prepare bills for
him on all conceivable subjects, and for
him to bave risen in his seat and pre-
scented them when the name of his
State was called on bill day.
Mr.. RoYALL's letter, published by us
yesterday. ought to convince every
body that the bondholders cannot be
misled or deceived by MALONE.
The Nelson Examiner says of Ma
homes pamphlet:
1.-The little villain (aliaS Malone.
ya.o is at his old tricks-publishing
pamphlets chokeful of - in praise
of himself. His last is most absurd
attempt to prove that in one term in
the Senate be did more for the State
than all her other senators and con-
eressmen since the war. He omits
to mention, Of course, that in
five years as railroad king he
wrecked one OF the finest properties
in the country, deprived the state of
$6,OC0, 0C0, and became a millionaire
end that for another Ave years, where
In he had nothing TO do sUith the rail
road. he claimed as much salary as
John w. Garrett or John s. Harbour
would have gotten for .Jorty:jive gears
of lsborious usefulness in building and
opelatinga great railroad line. Malone
irving to make it appear that he has
been the States most useful and pa
triotic son is the most ludricrous figure
on the planet. The best caricatures OF
Puck, Hdrper's Weekly, and Punch
are tame and fat by comparison.
The Washington Post says:
q Mahone's gathering at Petersburg
shows that the Republican party OF
Virginia is Malone and nothing but
Malone, and that, so far as the party
IS concerned, its only mission is to send
Malone TO the Senate in place OF Rid
z dIebtrger.
Let Virginia Democrats pnt down
Nahope this one time more, aud when
u the political roll is called generation
liter, tho answer to lis name will be,
sStill Dead"
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Wehave no quarrel with tie Maex-